Game 4: Bruins @ Senators

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Oct 18, 2008, 7:00 PM ET

On TV: NESN (HD)

On the Radio: WBZ 1030 (listen)








@ Ottawa Senators (2-1-1)

The last of four away games that have so far left the Bruins 1-1-1 to start the season.

Notes:

• Chara used to play for Ottawa. That's where he ragdolled McCabe:
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• Stephane Yelle has yet to take a shot on goal this season. Hockey Reference doesn't have time on ice, but I remember seeing him out there. I guess as he's getting older, he's taking fewer shots per game. I'm sponsoring that page. Nice.
• The Bruins are 11-11 in goals through three games, Ottawa is 14-11 through 4.
• The Bruins and the Senators were the two teams to compete in the first NHL-only Stanley Cup Finals, in 1927.
• Daniel Alfredsson had arthoscopic surgery on his knee last week, but still played in last night's game.
• Martin "Darth Goalie" Gerber will be in net tonight. I was (and still am) hoping that we face Auld tonight.
• Lines: Fernandez in for Boston, Senators keep the same lines as last night. If Fluto didn't do his job, this would be a lot harder.
  
  
• Bish says Ryder and Savard are a dynamic duo, accounting for half the Bruins points so far. Best quote is from Ryder: "It took a while for me to get used to trying to get open for him, and I wasn't expecting the pass, and all of a sudden he wouldn't look, and I would be there." Like this:
  

• Go Red Sox!
  
  
• Ottawa had a super-strong start last year, and then completely fell apart. We beat them to clinch a playoff berth back on April 4th, the 81st game of the year and the last game in Ottawa:
  

Other Game Previews:

• New England Hockey Journal remembers clinching and points out that the Blackhawks fired Denis Savard with a 1-2-1 record.
  
• The Jumbotron pisses his pants (though out of fear or boredom I can't decide)
• bruins.nhl.com has the AP summary.
• Fluto's got some notes of his own.
• Boston.com Thumbnails.
• Aaron Ward is sick of other teams' home openers.
  
  
• WickedBruinsFan's readers point out that Fernandez is starting away so Thomas can start at home.
  
  
• Anyone I missed should be over to your left in the auto-updating Blogroll. If you have a bruins blog and I missed it, let me know.
  

Some Stats, after Ottawa just beat Phoenix 6-3:

Shaq wants it.

GO BRUINS!